In October 2026 DeepSeek released its DeepInfer AI model-serving software under the Apache 2.0 open-source license

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DeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer, the inference engine that runs its AI models

On October 20, 2026 DeepSeek open-sourced DeepInfer, the software it uses to run its AI models in production

DeepSeek's DeepInfer model-serving software, open-sourced in October 2026, was built mainly on the open-source vLLM inference engine

The GitHub repository for DeepSeek's DeepInfer model-serving software passed 8,000 stars on the day of its October 20, 2026 release

At its October 2026 release, DeepSeek's DeepInfer model-serving software ran on Nvidia SM100 data-center GPUs and Huawei Ascend 950 chips

DeepSeek's October 2026 open-sourcing of its DeepInfer model-serving software could make DeepSeek's AI models cheaper for businesses to run, according to Bloomberg

In October 2026 DeepSeek released deepseek-recipe, a library that matches how DeepSeek's official API converts text to tokens and back

DeepSeek's October 2026 open-source release of DeepInfer left out a cache system, the split between prompt processing and answer generation, and load balancing across machines

As of October 2026, DeepSeek's own speed benchmarks for its DeepInfer model-serving software had not been independently tested

At its October 2026 release, DeepSeek's DeepInfer model-serving software supported only DeepSeek's V4.1-Flash model

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